Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-05-05
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Telephone lines are to be establish
ed between Paris and Brussels.
A new first-class meteorological
observatory has been established at
Allahabad, India
Herr Krupp is going to start
first-class daily newspaper at Essen for
the use of his 20, 900 workmen.
King Theebaw's remarkable collec-
ton of Oriental MSS collection
handed down to him as an heirloom
has been secured for the Indian Office
in London.
AT Bergen, in Norway. is church
constructed of papier mache which
will accommodate nearly thousand
persons. 1t is octagon in shape.
Observations in the Jura range of
mountains near Geneva show that the
presence fog in the atmosphere lessons
the proportion of carbonic acid in the
air.-M Y ledger,
1t is said there are over two thou
sand varieties of the apple cultivated in
Europe, its growth extending from
thirty-eight to sixty degrees, though
the best fruit is grown between the
thirty-eighth parallel and the forty
second. Francisco Chronicle.
The use of peat as fuel in facto-
ries has increased so greatly in Rus
STA that a peat bog has become more
valuable than a we'll timbered forest.
Many manufacturers are giving up the
use of wood for peat.
Mexican papers report that near
Oajaca the sepulchre has been discov-
cred of Zapotecan King. in which
were found images of obsidian. and an
idol of gold weighing fifty pounds
| NJ o. Times Democrat.
The bed on which Napoleon Bona
parte passed away at st. Helena, and
asplendid sword owned by Tamerlane,
according to a we'll authenticate d
record, were among the things left to
his nearest heirs by the late Napoleon
Berthier, Duke of Wagram.-M r
Independent.
The fund of G5OO,O 900, or So, 500,
600, left by George Peabody, for build
ing improved houses for the poor OF
London, has, through rent and inter-
est grown to f91O,6 6S. or S4,513, $40.
There are now 5,014 separate dwell
ings, containing 11,15O rooms. and
the average rent of each dwelling is
less than 81. 25 week.-N r Witness
The manufacture of solid carbon.
! ic-acid gas is said to have become 8
settled industry in Berlin. 1t is put
up in small cylinders, and if kept un
der pressure, will last some time; thai
is, cylinder one and half inches in
diameter, and two inches long, takes
five hours to melt away into gas
Popular Science Monthly.
| The steamboat service on the
Thames is to be reconstructed by 6
company with capital of millior
of dollars. To improve the little ole
black steamers would be a good idea
but long will it be, most likely, before
the monotonous voice of the callboy,
Ease her," stop her." "Start her, y
will cease to be heard up and down
| that muddy thoroughfare. Comgreqa.
tionalist.
"A report has been drawn up at the
German Ministry for War on the march
ing capabilities of the different Euro.
pean armies. 1t appears that the
length of each step of a Russian sol
dier, according to regulations, is II
centimetres; the German, 80; the
French. Austrian, Italian, Belgian
Swedish and Swiss, IS, an average o
about 234 inches. The Italian soldier
does 12O steps in a minute; the French
from 112 to 116; the German, lis; the
Austrian, 11S, and the Belgian, no
An Italian regiment marches at thu
rate of 80 metres in the minute; a Ger
man regiment, 80; an English, SS, ane
French, 86.-N Y Sun.